Job Description
Job Title:  Research Assistant (Mathematics)
Posting Start Date:  23/06/2025
Job Description: 

Job Description

The successful candidate will work with Professor Nguyen Hung Minh Tan on developing new transformer models using optimal transport under a project on "A primal-dual framework for transformers: efficiency, privacy, and robustness".


The main responsibilities of the position include:
-    Develop robust and efficient transformers using tools from optimal transports
-    Write 1 conference and 1 journal paper
-    Do literature review on transformers and optimization 


Qualifications / Discipline:
-    Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or related fields
-    Have at least 1 publication at tier-1 machine learning conferences


Skills:
-    Familiar with Python and Pytorch
-    Good background on optimization and probability
-    Good background on optimal transport


Experience:  
-    At least 6 months working on machine learning
-    Has experience writing research papers in machine learning

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Science

Department : Mathematics

Job requisition ID : 29386